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Laura Bullard checked the facts.
Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore engineered.
Many thanks to Vox's Constance Grady, Kendall Cunningham, and Christian Paz.
It's Today Explained.
President Trump has taken flak recently for not appearing to get that Americans think life is too expensive.
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that was supposed to be about the economy, he made fun of Joe Biden.
He ranted about immigration.
He returned to old chestnuts.
But he offered little in the way of acknowledgement.
When he's not denying the problem, Trump is often pinning the blame on his favorite target, the Federal Reserve, for not cutting interest rates.
Trump has always dismissed technocrats.
In his second term, he's relying more on instincts than experts.
And it is starting to damage his presidency.
That's coming up on Today Explained.